The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-27
DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.
sAvANNAHIANs MAKE THE MOST
OF THE HOLIDAY.

Business Suspended and Everybody
Goes in for Good Time--Some Have
1t and Some Don't-The Small Boy
Lights Up the City with Bonfires and
Makes the Fireworks Dealers Happy
The Police Record.
Yesterday was more like Christmas than
was Christmas day itself. 1t was celebrated
in the old-fashioned way. Everybody did
something in keeping with the season. Most
of the gift-giving was done the day before.
Christmas dinners were not so plentiful
either, because they were mostly eaten on
Sunday, but otherwise the day was kept as
Christmas used to be.
EVERYBODY OUT OF DOORS.
The streets were filled with people. Bust
ness was almost totally suspended. There
were no services in the churches for the de-
voutly inclined to attend, and in the alb
sence of both business and devotions, the
day was given up TO pleasure. There were
few people Though who kept Christmas as
though it was no more than an ordinary
day. The telegraph operators and news
paper forces were as busy as ever. For
them there are no holidays. The railroad
employees, some of them got a
day off, but the train forces had to make
their usual runs. The Express company
employees were jaded out with last weeks
work, but they kept at it. All day Sunday
the drivers were delivering Christmas pack
ages, and when night came they were not
half through. Yesterday there was a little
Stacking Off, but the men had all they could
do.
PEOPLE WHO ENJOYED THE DAY.
1t was the clerks and business men that
got the most out of the day Broughtou
street, in the afternoon, was thronged with
promenaders, and further out ON Bull street
and in the Park the sidewalks were alive
with people It was a day spent out of
doors. The weather. though COOL was
bright, and was Just what the signal bureau
said that it would be. In the northern part
of the city, and in the suburbs, there was a
good deal of drinking and noise, but in the
main the city was orderly.
THE SMALL BOY LET LOOSE.
The small boy let himself loose, and nerv-
Gus people suffered from his pranks Pop
pers and bombs popped and banged all day
and last night the city was blaze of bonfres.
Every square south of Liberty street set
out to Guido all others, and the smoke and
noise that came out of the contest told how
well each succeeded. The Park extension
was blaze of bonfires, and Roman candles
and skvrockets lit the entire southern part
of the city.
THE DAYS ROUND Up.
The show was over early though, and by
| 10 o'clock most of the fires were out Troup
square had the biggest demonstration on the
eastern side of town, and the Haber-
sham street car drivers had the
utmost difficulty in getting their
teams through on account of the
racket Calhoun, Madison, Monterey,
| Pulaski and Chatham SquaI es looked, after
the nights celebration was over, like the
scene of a big confiagration. Heaps of
ashes and burned-out fireworks covered the
grass-plots and walks. 1t will take the
STRENGTHENING force some time to get the
| squares looking fresh again.
| GATHERED BY THE POLICE.
| Isaac Clayton, Charles O'Neil and Jacob
| Jones, three negroes, were arrested for
firing of pistols in Washington Square
about $50 O'Clock last night. About that
| time Mary Mckenzie, a negress, was shot
in the cheek with a pistol ball and it is
! thought that one of the trio was the one
who fired the shot. and the charge of shoot
| ing her was put against all three.
7. j. Simmons was locked up last night
| for beating Flora Givens with a stick. Both
are colored and they got into a row on Sims
| street. Simmons picked up a square stick
and began beating the woman over the
head. The corners of the stick cut like a
knife, and when she appeared at the bar
racks to prefer the charge her head was a
curiosity in itself.
| Arthur Kidd, notorious negro, was ar
rested on Congress, near Habersham, for
| fourishing a dangerous looking knife and
| threatening to cut Clara Mcbride.